Sebastien Loeb wins two of today’s stages, as Petter Solberg win the second pass of Dhrontal 30.76 km. Latvala has problems with the bonnet as he explains:
"I don't know happened with the bonnet. It may be a catch on the front, but it's loose and on the long, long fast straight it started to open and I had to ask Miikka [Anttila] what we do because if we stop we could lose this position now."
Loeb: "I don't care about the times. It was really tricky. In some places you had to be really, really careful. Even with the soft tyre you had a lot of grip changes."
Today Ott Tanak, Dani Sordo, Petter Solberg and Thierry Neuville all rejoined for Sunday under Rally 2.

Comments at the end of the rally:
Loeb: "We had a perfect car so I was confident, and made no mistakes, which was also important. That's a perfect weekend."
Hirvonen: "It's more points and a very important result for the team. I really had a tough time on this rally but I learned a lot and came through without any mistakes. Now we are here on the podium, so it's not so bad."

Overall Results:
1. S. Loeb 3:41:52.0
2. J. Latvala +2:00.0
3. M. Hirvonen +2:31.3
4. M. Ostberg +3:24.3
5. C. Atkinson +9:10.4
6. S. Ogier +9:50.5

Power Stage Results:
1. S. Loeb 3:24.4 - 3 Pts
2. M. Hirvonen +2.1 - 2 Pts
3. A. Mikkelsen +6.7 - 1 Pt
 

Loeb continues to lead comfortable in Germany in an absence of real competition.
O. Tanak wins SS 10 Stein and Wein 2 (26.54km) and SS 11 Peterberg 2 (9.37km) followed by Daniel Sordo for stage 10 and Sebastien Loeb in stage 11. In Arena Panzerplatte 2 O. Tanak hit his right rear wheel and lose the battle win Mads Otsberg for fourth position. Dani Sordo also has problems in Arena Panzerplatte 2 as he stopped due too damages in his radiator.
Sebastien Loeb wins the second pass of the longest rally stage Arena Panzerplatte 2 (46.54 km). The first asphalt rally for Chris Atkinson since 2008 is very successful as currently he is fifth overall after the incident in Finland when out of the road due too pace notes mistake. Petter Solberg fail to continue after the damages in Arena Panzerplatte 1.
Comments:
Loeb: "A huge lead, so again a very good day and no problems. We really had to go slow in this long stage because anything can happen in this one. We saw that in the first pass. Now we've finished the second day and it's looking good for tomorrow."
Latvala: "I wanted to win this stage. This stage was so important. He went very hard in the middle of the stage and at the end I made some little mistakes and I'm a little bit angry with myself."
Ostberg: "It was a big fight between us. He took lots of time off me. He pushed very hard in the beginning and we were equal on the splits until he crashed. We were pushing really hard and he must have done too.
Atkinson: "We knew if we ran at a solid pace then we were going to get a decent result. I didn't expect to be in fifth at the end of day two, but we'll take it."

Results after the end of Day 2:
1. S. Loeb 2:58:51.8
2. J. Latvala +1:42.9
3. M. Hirvonen +2:12.7
4. M. Ostberg +3:07.8
5. C. Atkinson +6:59.0
6. S. Ogier +8:10.6

For tomorrow the last rally day there are 3 stages to run twice Dhrontal 30.76 km and the Power Stage SSS Circus Maximus Trier of 4.37 km.
 

There are not changes in stage 7. But in stage 8 Latvala lost his third position while Daniel Sordo moved to third. Latvala spin and lost 36 seconds in SS 8 Peterberg 1 (9.37km).

Latvala: "I spun it. Under braking there was a bit more dampness than I thought. No damage, but I got stuck and had to reverse, then go forwards and finally I got back, but I lost a lot of time. Now I need to concentrate on third place. Petter [Solberg] has gone and Loeb is too far away."
Loeb:  "You've just got to keep the speed in the corner, and the road is as wide as the car here so if you lose it once, you're off. We don't want to make a mistake, we have a good lead."
Sordo: "I didn't take a lot of risks, I just drove and braked normally. It was tricky with hard tyres in the wet, but we needed to do it. It's good but the rally is really long and now there's a really important stage for everyone with Panzerplatte."

In the longest rally stage SS 9 Arena Panzerplatte 1 (46.54 kilometres) Petter Solberg, Thierry Neuville and Daniel Sordo hit problems. Neuville out of the road and finished the day 2 to retire.
Petter Solberg damages his right rear and is unknown whether he can goes on.
Daniel Sordo has a puncture as he explains: "We had a really slow puncture at the beginning of the stage and we drove a little bit like that because we weren't sure if it was the tyres moving or a puncture because it was so slow. When the tyre went out, we decided to stop and change it. We lost a lot of time, and afterwards we didn't do very well."
Sebastien Loeb wins the longest rally stage with 0.8 seconds faster than Latvala.
Results after SS 9:
1. S. Loeb 2:11:08.6
2. J. Latvala +1:29.7
3. M. Hirvonen +2:05.0
4. M. Ostberg +2:47.9
5. O. Tanak +2:48.7
6. D. Sordo +3:57.0

There are 3 stages to go to the end of day 2.
 

Latvala win two of the afternoon stages but althogh that remains on third position.
The rally leader Sebastien Loeb continue in day 2 ith confident advance.
Comments after the end of Day  1:
Loeb: “For sure I am happy. We are leading, that’s really good and we started to increase a little bit our lead. I am pushing hard because I am feeling comfortable in the car and I am able to make some differences so that’s good.”
M. Prokop: What exactly happened? “Actually we don’t know because the flames and the smoke was coming very fast so I decided to stop because it was impossible to sit in the car any more. We will try to find the parts that could have been broken, like the brake pipes or dampers because maybe there was some problem with leaking oil from these parts because it was really aggressive, very fast. It will be difficult because you can see there is nothing left on the car.”
The main thing is you are okay, right? “We are both okay because we jumped from the car immediately. My co-driver was trying for a long time to save the car but it was not possible.”
Unfortunately the same can’t be said for the car...? “The car is completely finished, you cannot use anything from the car. Everything is completely destroyed. I just took my phone from the car, that is all I had time to take.”
Results after the end of Day 1:
1. S. Loeb 1:22:18.0
2. P. Solberg +20.4
3. J. Latvala +29.4
4. T. Neuville +34.5
5. D. Sordo +46.7
6. M. Hirvonen +48.9
There are 6 stages for tomorrow incudes the longest rally stage Arena Panzerplatte of 46.54 km.

Sebastien Loeb is the rally leader in Germany after 3 stages in Day 1.
The flying Frenchman win the three morning stages in Germany and is without competition in Rally Germany 2012. Petter Solberg is far at more than 13 seconds while Mikko Hirvonen loses time in stage 2 and currently is 5th overall. Mikko explains: "I just don't have a good feeling and don't have any rhythm. I'm really struggling. I'm just being too cautious all the time. It's not a good drive at all. I'm not just cautious on the gravel, on other places as well. I just don't have good confidence now."
Other Rally comments:
Latvala: "This is a rally where Sebastien is super strong, I don't expect to be able to fight with him, but still I'm a little bit down about the speed."
Loeb: "It was okay, a good drive, no mistakes. It's difficult here in Germany, especially in the vineyards, with only two passes on the recce because everything is new. I tried not to make any mistakes and not to do too much, and it was okay."
P. Solberg: "It looked good but I had a small problem and that's why we lost quite a lot. This can happen sometimes. But it's okay, we're doing the best we can."

Results after SS 3:
1. S. Loeb 41:22.1
2. P. Solberg +13.1
3. J. Latvala +18.8
4. T. Neuville +25.5
5. M. Hirvonen +28.0
6. D. Sordo +34.9

There are another 3 stages to the end of Day 1 in Germany. Total there are 15 stages for the whole rally.